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Pirate Bay Faces Piracy Charges; Site’s Operators Arrested

Denmark- THE PIRATE BAY, A BITTORRENT tracking site that lets users search for files that are available for sharing, is facing a battle on at least two fronts.

A Danish court this week ordered a Denmark Internet service provider, Tele2 Denmark, to block the site. That order came just days after four people behind the ad-supported site were arrested in Sweden for promoting copyright infringement.

But so far, neither of those moves has resulted in the site’s shuttering. The four alleged site operators have declared they have no intention of shutting down despite the arrests.

“In case we lose the pending trial (yeah right) there will still not be any changes to the site. The Pirate Bay will keep operating just as always. We’ve been here for years and we will be here many more,” reads a post on the site’s blog.

The operators argue that The Pirate Bay is lawful, noting that it doesn’t host any copyrighted content and doesn’t know which of the clips it indexes are infringing and which are legitimate. And, one of the four who was arrested, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, told Wired that the site is immune to any shutdown orders because its servers are scattered worldwide.

Additionally, even though Tele2 said it would comply with the court order, that’s not expected to even make a dent in Pirate Bay’s traffic. Tele2 provides service to just 4% of the country’s 2 million Web users, according to Reuters. What’s more, historically this type of order hasn’t been effective. In 2006, a Danish court ordered an Internet service provider to block access to the Russian-based site AllOfMP3.com, but Web users figured out a way around the restrictions.

The record and movie industries obviously aren’t going to stop targeting online piracy any time soon. But even the most diehard enthusiasts of copyright enforcement actions have to be asking themselves whether these types of legal moves are furthering their goals.

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